Multiple ways of attending the course
Metàfora’s Studio Arts Program is designed in accumulative blocks that start several times a year. This means that students can join the art course for one block (which lasts for about 6 weeks) and then decide whether to stay on for longer.
There are 5 different student take-ins during the year and short term students simply “jump in” as visitors to the all-year course.
Both long- and short-term students on Metàfora’s Studio Arts Programs can attend courses from Metàfora’s Art Therapy department with a 25% discount.
Students who cannot come for 6 full time weeks (or longer) during the year have the academic year have other possibilities of attending Metàfora’s Studio Arts Programs.
The Summer Block is a four week version of the habitual course, only more intensive and with a program which allows students to sign up for down to one week.
As a new option, students can choose to study part time at Metàfora. This option is a very flexible and reduced version of the full time course, with most of the benefits, allowing the students to study at a much slower pace.
Short Term Stays
Not everybody has the possibility to tear out an entire year of the calendar and fly off to Spain. We understand that.
Therefore, we offer the possibility of shorter stays on Metàfora’s Studio Arts Programs: where one block last just 6 weeks. This option is a more affordable, yet intense and a concentrated way of savoring the course. Overseas students on short stays do not need to apply for a student visa, and can use a 3 month tourist visa instead.
Students on a short stay enter the course alongside all other students and participate in all activities like everyone else. If there is an open call for an off-campus exhibition coinciding with the stay, the short term students are also welcome to apply.
Short term students are welcome to join us on our yearly trip to Madrid, if this coincides with their stay (Block 3 or 4). A small fee towards is applicable.
Have a look here to see more information about the trip.
| ENTRY REQUIREMENTS | Metàfora admits students to the short stays throughout the year, whenever places are available.
Entry requirements for each level are described above. |
| LENGTH OF COURSE | Studio blocks of 6 weeks
A short term stay can be prolonged, subject to available places. |
| ECTS | 12 ECTS per block*
* Metàfora is an independent institution without university accreditation. |
| EVALUATION | Students on short stays are evaluated just like other students and recieve a detailed transcript upon completion. |
Summer Block
The Summer Block is the shortest of all the blocks of Metàfora’s Studio Arts Program and is a celebration of the wonderful Mediterranean summer.
See this page for details about dates and fees.
The Summer Block has a more playful structure, and falls outside the curriculum of the academic year. Therefore there is hardly no division between levels. Only tutorial groups and a few other activities are divided according to the previous experience and training of the participants.
The Summer Block is organized around longer (optional) school days. The course is more varied and flexible, with different classes every week, and the possibility to opt for even shorter stays: from 1 to 4 weeks.
The general structure of the Summer Block, maintains the weekly tutorials and Recent Art history classes and ends with intensive days of art work presentations.
| ENTRY REQUIREMENTS | Metàfora admits students to the Summer Block in groups with different backgrounds and levels.
Therefore it is not necessary to present a portfolio, but such is very appreciated during the admission process. |
| LENGTH OF COURSE | 4 weeks (in July)
Students can join weeks 1, 2 and 3 independently. |
| ECTS | 8 ECTS*
* Metàfora is an independent institution without university accreditation. |
| EVALUATION | On Metàfora’s Summer Block there is no formal evaluation of the student’s work, beyond the necessary attendance rate for the obligatory activities on the course (tutorials, Recent Art History, final work presentations etc.). |
Art Therapy Courses at Metàfora
Metàfora also has an art therapy department. For more than 20 years, Metàfora has offered training in this field, which has made it one of the reference institutions, not only in Spain, but also abroad. Art therapy is a discipline based on the psychotherapeutic applications of the artistic process and the importance of the relationship between the user and the art therapist.
It essentially uses the means of the visual arts to promote significant and lasting changes in people, enhancing their development and evolution as individual and social beings.
It is a profession with more than seventy years of history, but in constant expansion. Officially recognized in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States or the Netherlands, it is increasingly in demand in settings such as schools, hospitals, nursing homes, etc.
The educational offer in art therapy in English includes both introductory courses and a postgraduate. All courses are designed in an intensive format. In addition, the introductory courses are offered both online and blended.
- Autumn Introductory Course: 26th, 27th, 28th, 30th of September & 1st of October
- Summer School: from the 17th to 27th of July, 2023
- Winter Introductory Course: 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th & 14th of January 2024
- Advanced Diploma in Art Therapy (postgraduate level): 6th of October, 2023 – 16th of June, 2024
All students enrolled in our Studio Arts programs have a 25% discount on any of the art therapy courses. If you want more information, please contact us via email at@metafora.org.